A Popular Choice

The popularity among the urban community and theof rocawear to expand its brand to other brands
hip hop nations of the rocawear clothing line hassuch as rocawear children, rocawear juniors,
brought an annual sale of over $700 million.rocawear socks and sandals, rocawear leather suede
When it comes to styles of the urban community,and fur outerwear, rocawear handbags and rocawear
there is only one clothing line that speaks the truebelts, rocawear lounge wear and big & tall, rocawear
language of fashion, rocawear. The rocawear clothingheadwear, rocawear jewelry, and rocawear
line is considered to be the most popular choice ofsunglasses.
clothing line among the urban community and the hipIn March of 2007, Jay-Z sold the rights to the
hop nation.rocawear brand to Iconix Brand Group, a brand
Rocawear rocawear is an urban clothing line foundedmanagement company that licenses brands to
in 1999 by three wise men (not the ones in the bible)retailers and manufacturers primarily in the apparel,
named Damon Dash, Karee “Biggs” Burke, andfootwear, and apparel accessory industries, for $204
Jay-Z, which were also the heads of a hip hop labelmillion. Jay-Z still retained his stake in the company
named Roc-a-Fella Records, it is also where theyand will continue to oversee the marketing, licensing
coined the name rocawear.and product development.
Its popularity among the urban community hasHowever, even though the rocawear clothing line
brought an annual sale of over $700 million to thereceived so much praise from the urban community,
infamous rocawear clothing line. This led the foundersit also received much allegations and accusations.